Category: Album Reviews

March 30, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

FOR ONE TO LOVE 8.5/10 Initially she breathes the words barely hard enough to frost a mirror. Each comes surrounded by a billowing space partially shaded by her wonderful trio, so you absorb their meaning gradually: “Love appeared just like a fog”. Fog is not only sung sensationally well by…

March 27, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

THE GOLDILOCKS ZONE (Losen/Birdland) 8/10 That Gary Husband plays at the highest levels on both drums and piano already sets him apart. Those used to hearing his drumming in such full-frontal fusion projects as the band John McLaughlin brought here last year may well be further surprised by his ability…

March 24, 2016 / Album Reviews - Archive

SAKURA (Studio Songs) 6.5/10 Steve Barry’s Insen is a gorgeous ballad to slow the mind and engender a languid wistfulness of mood. It is a mood common to all musical cultures, and here shows the depth of rapport within this cosmopolitan, cross-generational band. Orbiturtle consists of two Sydney based players…